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Is Women Owned Small Business

Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor is classified as a Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) for the IDV record. It captures the vendor’s socio-economic status as reported in FPDS vendor site details, and may appear as a flag value rather than a fully descriptive text field.

Family: IDV
Category: Vendor Site Details
Data Type: boolean_or_code_flag
Semantic Type: flag
Mapping: flattened_fpds_xml_field
AI Confidence: high

Variable Overview

FPDS Query Variable
content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isWomenOwnedSmallBusiness
Title
Is Women Owned Small Business
FPDS Path
IDV/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/isWomenOwnedSmallBusiness
Description
Boolean or coded indicator showing whether the vendor is classified as a Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) for the IDV record. It captures the vendor’s socio-economic status as reported in FPDS vendor site details, and may appear as a flag value rather than a fully descriptive text field.
Business Meaning
This field is used to measure participation of women-owned small businesses in federal procurement, support set-aside and small business policy analysis, and evaluate socio-economic spending patterns. It is relevant for compliance reporting, diversity metrics, and vendor portfolio segmentation across awards and IDVs.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
5,862,557

FPDS Compare

FPDS Query Variable
content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isWomenOwnedSmallBusiness
FPDS XML Path
IDV/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/isWomenOwnedSmallBusiness
Mapping Type
flattened_fpds_xml_field
Comparison Summary
FPDS Query flattens the original nested FPDS XML path 'IDV/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/vendorSocioEconomicIndicators/isWomenOwnedSmallBusiness' into the SQL-ready variable 'content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isWomenOwnedSmallBusiness'.

Use Cases

  • Dictionary lookup and field explanation
  • SQL filtering and grouping
  • Analytical reporting and reusable query building
  • Contractor profiling and competitor analysis

Common Usage

  • Filter IDVs or vendors for women-owned small business analysis
  • Calculate award volume or obligations associated with WOSB vendors
  • Support socio-economic and diversity reporting

Common Mistakes

  • Assuming a null value means the vendor is not women-owned
  • Treating the field as a certification source rather than an FPDS-reported indicator

Query Guidance

Use explicit value mapping in SQL, for example WHERE field IN ('1','Y',1) for true-like values after confirming the dataset encoding. For reporting, separate true, false, and null/unknown cases, and avoid relying on generic boolean casting unless the source encoding is standardized.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isWomenOwnedSmallBusiness AS is_women_owned_small_business
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isWomenOwnedSmallBusiness IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

SELECT
    content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isWomenOwnedSmallBusiness AS flag_value,
    count() AS record_count
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__IDV__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__vendorSocioEconomicIndicators__isWomenOwnedSmallBusiness IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY flag_value
ORDER BY record_count DESC

Each dictionary item includes SQL-ready examples generated alongside the variable metadata, allowing immediate use in FPDS Query for filtering, aggregation, and analysis.